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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 15 05:33PM -0500

This is Rotating Quiz #289.

I'd like to thank Erland Sommarskog for running RQ #288, which
I'm still amazed that I was able to win. As usual, the first
choice to set RQ #290 will be the winner of this one.
 
289 is 17 squared, but I decided not to come up with 17 questions
for this one. There are 14 questions and they all count equally.
 
There is a hidden theme, which matters for some answers because they
may be given in different forms but only one will fit the theme.
 
In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be who scored on the
hardest questions, the second tiebreaker (not that I expect it to
help) will be choosing answer forms that fit the theme, and the
third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
 
As usual, please answer only from your own knowledge and -- except
in case of technical difficulties -- post all your answers to
the newsgroup in a single posting, quoting the questions you are
answering and placing your answers below each one.
 
You have until Friday, April 20, 2018, to enter, by Toronto time
(zone -4, I repeat, -4); that gives you 5 days and almost 5.5 hours
from the time of posting. Have fun.
 
 
1. What form of liquor is (or, if applicable, traditionally was)
flavored with juniper berries?
 
2. What song opens with the lyrics: "I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah"?
 
3. John Horton Conway invented a cellular automaton based on a
square two-dimensional grid and an arbitrary initial
configuration where some cells are "populated". A cell where
exactly 3 of its 8 neighbors are populated becomes populated;
one with exactly 2 populated neighbors does not change; any
other cell becomes unpopulated; this all happens simultaneously
for all cells; repeat ad infinitum. What did he call this?
 
4. What German princely house played an important role in the
development of postal services in central Europe?
 
5. In the insurance business, premiums are set based on an expert
assessment of what one-word term?
 
6. The historic region of Mesopotamia was named after its position
between which two rivers?
 
7. If you live in an old and inadequately weatherproofed house in
England, you are likely to feel what around the windows, doors,
and fireplaces?
 
8. What hilltop town in France was made a UNESCO World Heritage
Site because of the preservation and restoration of its medieval
defenses, particularly by the early conservator Viollet-le-Duc?
 
9. A simple electronic circuit named after Sir Charles Wheatstone
was developed as an accurate way to measure resistance. It is
called a Wheatstone *what*?
 
10. In 1867, the British North America Act (later called the
"Constitution Act, 1867") federated the colonies or "provinces"
of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia to form a larger
Canada, which it specified would be what type of entity?
 
11. In the original Parker Brothers edition of "Monopoly", you
collect $200 when passing what square?
 
12. What Caribbean island was victimised first by Hurricane Maria,
and then by Donald Trump?
 
13. What famous play's secondary characters include Brabantio,
Gratiano, Lodovico, Michael Cassio, and Roderigo? (The spelling
of some of their names varies between editions; don't worry
about that.)
 
14. What is the generic name of the small arthropods that have
one pair of legs for each of a large number of body segments?
 
--
Mark Brader "We can get ideas even from a clever man." ...
Toronto "Yes, I think you can. Even ideas you should
msb@vex.net have had yourselves." -- John Dickson Carr
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 15 05:34PM -0500

Dang, I forgot to start a new thread. Here's a repeat. Post
in either thread to answer, but preferably this one.
 
This is Rotating Quiz #289.

I'd like to thank Erland Sommarskog for running RQ #288, which
I'm still amazed that I was able to win. As usual, the first
choice to set RQ #290 will be the winner of this one.
 
289 is 17 squared, but I decided not to come up with 17 questions
for this one. There are 14 questions and they all count equally.
 
There is a hidden theme, which matters for some answers because they
may be given in different forms but only one will fit the theme.
 
In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be who scored on the
hardest questions, the second tiebreaker (not that I expect it to
help) will be choosing answer forms that fit the theme, and the
third tiebreaker will be who posted first.
 
As usual, please answer only from your own knowledge and -- except
in case of technical difficulties -- post all your answers to
the newsgroup in a single posting, quoting the questions you are
answering and placing your answers below each one.
 
You have until Friday, April 20, 2018, to enter, by Toronto time
(zone -4, I repeat, -4); that gives you 5 days and almost 5.5 hours
from the time of posting. Have fun.
 
 
1. What form of liquor is (or, if applicable, traditionally was)
flavored with juniper berries?
 
2. What song opens with the lyrics: "I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah"?
 
3. John Horton Conway invented a cellular automaton based on a
square two-dimensional grid and an arbitrary initial
configuration where some cells are "populated". A cell where
exactly 3 of its 8 neighbors are populated becomes populated;
one with exactly 2 populated neighbors does not change; any
other cell becomes unpopulated; this all happens simultaneously
for all cells; repeat ad infinitum. What did he call this?
 
4. What German princely house played an important role in the
development of postal services in central Europe?
 
5. In the insurance business, premiums are set based on an expert
assessment of what one-word term?
 
6. The historic region of Mesopotamia was named after its position
between which two rivers?
 
7. If you live in an old and inadequately weatherproofed house in
England, you are likely to feel what around the windows, doors,
and fireplaces?
 
8. What hilltop town in France was made a UNESCO World Heritage
Site because of the preservation and restoration of its medieval
defenses, particularly by the early conservator Viollet-le-Duc?
 
9. A simple electronic circuit named after Sir Charles Wheatstone
was developed as an accurate way to measure resistance. It is
called a Wheatstone *what*?
 
10. In 1867, the British North America Act (later called the
"Constitution Act, 1867") federated the colonies or "provinces"
of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia to form a larger
Canada, which it specified would be what type of entity?
 
11. In the original Parker Brothers edition of "Monopoly", you
collect $200 when passing what square?
 
12. What Caribbean island was victimised first by Hurricane Maria,
and then by Donald Trump?
 
13. What famous play's secondary characters include Brabantio,
Gratiano, Lodovico, Michael Cassio, and Roderigo? (The spelling
of some of their names varies between editions; don't worry
about that.)
 
14. What is the generic name of the small arthropods that have
one pair of legs for each of a large number of body segments?
 
--
Mark Brader "We can get ideas even from a clever man." ...
Toronto "Yes, I think you can. Even ideas you should
msb@vex.net have had yourselves." -- John Dickson Carr
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
swp <stephen.w.perry@gmail.com>: Apr 15 07:44PM -0700

On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 6:34:59 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
> Dang, I forgot to start a new thread. Here's a repeat. Post
> in either thread to answer, but preferably this one.
 
> This is Rotating Quiz #289.
 
all of the answers are names of games. very clever.
 
swp
Joe <joe@oxtedonline.com>: Apr 16 10:55AM +0100

On 2018-04-15 22:34:54 +0000, Mark Brader said:
 
 
> This is Rotating Quiz #289.
 
> 1. What form of liquor is (or, if applicable, traditionally was)
> flavored with juniper berries?
 
Gin
 
 
> 2. What song opens with the lyrics: "I think I'm gonna be sad,
> I think it's today, yeah"?
 
Ticket to Ride
 
> one with exactly 2 populated neighbors does not change; any
> other cell becomes unpopulated; this all happens simultaneously
> for all cells; repeat ad infinitum. What did he call this?
 
The Game of Life
 
 
> 4. What German princely house played an important role in the
> development of postal services in central Europe?
 
Brabant
 
 
> 5. In the insurance business, premiums are set based on an expert
> assessment of what one-word term?
 
Risk
 
 
> 7. If you live in an old and inadequately weatherproofed house in
> England, you are likely to feel what around the windows, doors,
> and fireplaces?
 
Draughts
 
 
> 8. What hilltop town in France was made a UNESCO World Heritage
> Site because of the preservation and restoration of its medieval
> defenses, particularly by the early conservator Viollet-le-Duc?
 
Carcassonne
 
 
> 9. A simple electronic circuit named after Sir Charles Wheatstone
> was developed as an accurate way to measure resistance. It is
> called a Wheatstone *what*?
 
Bridge
 
> "Constitution Act, 1867") federated the colonies or "provinces"
> of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia to form a larger
> Canada, which it specified would be what type of entity?
 
Dominion
 
 
> 11. In the original Parker Brothers edition of "Monopoly", you
> collect $200 when passing what square?
 
Go
 
> Gratiano, Lodovico, Michael Cassio, and Roderigo? (The spelling
> of some of their names varies between editions; don't worry
> about that.)
 
Othello
 
 
> 14. What is the generic name of the small arthropods that have
> one pair of legs for each of a large number of body segments?
 
Centipede
 
The theme is obviously Games. Just cannot recall the answers to 6 and 12.
 
--
"To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by
withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely
fucked up."
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Apr 15 08:59PM +0200

Rotating Quiz 288 is over, and the winner is Mark Brader! Congratulations
Mark, and may we see RQ 289 soon!
 
Here are the correct answers:
 
> 1. At the outbreak of World War I, which of the independent states in
> Europe republics?
 
San Marino (since long), Switzerland (since quite long too),
France (since 1871) and Portugal (since 1910).
 
 
> 2. Which are the official languages of Singapore?
 
English, Mandarin/Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
 
 
> 3. Which countries have won Davis Cup in tennis on at least five occasions
> since 1923?
 
US (many), Australia (many), France (ten), Sweden (seven), Great Britain
(five), Spain (five).
 
The reason I set the limit to 1923 is that before that there are entries
for "Australasia" and "British Isles". And, yeah, Great Britain is listed
as such, at least in Wikipedia. But UK works too.
 
...and no one entered Sweden, sob.
 
 
> 4. Name all persons who have appeared on an original album with The
> Rolling Stones as a regular member of the group.
 
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Brian Jones,
Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman.
 
 
> 5. List all elements of which there exists stable isotopes with both odd
> number of protons and odd number of neutrons.
 
Hydrogen, Lithium, Boron, Nitrogen and Tantalum
 
Tantalum, who could have guessed? Not me. I learn that there were five
stable odd-odd isotopes in the course in nuclear phyiscs that was part
of my engineering degree, and I recall that the professor said that
it was the five lightest possible. But Dan Tilque's overly ambitious
answer prompted me to check his entries, including flourine, and that
was when I realised I was in trouble. Eventually I found a topic in
Wikipedia with a list of stable isotopes that I had to trawl until I
came to Tantalum. The isotope Tantalum-180m is itself quite weird. There
are at least three ways it could fall apart, and its half-life has
been calculated to be at least 4.5*10^16 years, which is a long time,
but there are radioactive isotopes of which the half-life is far longer.
However, no radioactivity has been observed from Tantalum-180m, so until
this happens, it counts as stable.
 
 
> 6. November 9 is a date on which several important events has happened in
> Germany during the 20th century. Name all years *and* the event that
> happened on Nov 9th that year.
 
1918-11-09: Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates.
1924-11-08/09: Bier Hall Putch
1938-11-09/10: Kristallnacht, big pogrom against Jews.
1989-11-09: The Berlin Wall was opened.
 
The Reichstag fire took place in 1933-02-27.
 
 
> 7. Which where the films in the "Man with no Name" series directed by
> Sergio Leonoe and starring Clint Eastwood?
 
A Fistful Of Dollars
A Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 
 
> 8. Since the reunification of China in the 6th century, which dynasties
> have ruled China for at least 50 years?
 
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing
 
Reluctantly, I'm accepting "Manchu" for "Qing" as that name is sometimes
used in non-Chinese sources. Also with some reluctance, I'm accepting
"Ching", which is an older spelling from the same system that gave us
"Peking", but some Googling indicates that there still is some usage.
 
Han was a great dynasty, but that was centuries earlier, before China
fell into pieces.
 
 
> 9. Name the sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
 
Reuben, Simeone, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Iassachar,
Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.
 
Before I looked up the answer, I only knew three myself (Levi, Joseph and
Benjamin), and there was more than one name I didn't even recognise
when seeing the list.
 
 
Here is the score list:
 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
----------------------------------------------------
Mark B 75 75 50 29 40 25 100 60 0 454
Dan B 75 75 50 29 40 0 100 80 0 449
Marc D 50 50 67 71 0 0 100 0 58 396
Peter S 50 25 67 71 60 0 0 40 75 388
Dan T 50 75 17 14 20 25 67 80 33 381
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 15 04:00PM -0500

Erland Sommarskog:
> Rotating Quiz 288 is over, and the winner is Mark Brader!
 
What?!?
 
> Congratulations Mark, and may we see RQ 289 soon!
 
Okay, I'll see what I can do.

> > 2. Which are the official languages of Singapore?
 
> English, Mandarin/Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
 
You know, I *thought* one of the languages of Sri Lanka was official in
Singapore too, but if I'd decided to try, I would've picked the wrong one.

> 1924-11-08/09: Bier Hall Putch
> 1938-11-09/10: Kristallnacht, big pogrom against Jews.
> 1989-11-09: The Berlin Wall was opened.
 
And I thought Kristallnacht might have been on that date too, but
I figured that if it was, I would've seen it pointed out before.
Oh well.

 
> A Fistful Of Dollars
> A Few Dollars More
> The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 
This is interesting: the exact titles of the first two as shown in the
IMDB are:
 
Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More (as I gave it)
 
I don't do Westerns and haven't ever seen them, but I always thought the
first one was "A Fistful of Dollars", as both of us gave it. And the
movie's IMDB page shows a poster where that *is* given as the title.
But apparently that was not the title used onscreen.
 
Also, before I learned that it was wrong, I used to think that the first
title was
 
For a Fistful of Dollars
 
and it turns out that that *is* the correct translation the original
Italian title, "Per un pugno di dollari". Huh.
 
 
Thanks.
--
Mark Brader | "Don't you ever want to change your life?"
Toronto | "You talk about life as if it was something you buy
msb@vex.net | in the shops: 'I'm sorry, but when I got it home,
| it didn't suit me.'" -- Butterflies
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Apr 15 11:42PM +0200


> And I thought Kristallnacht might have been on that date too, but
> I figured that if it was, I would've seen it pointed out before.
> Oh well.
 
From what read recently, the date for Kristallnacht was not chosen
at random, but it was purposely chosen to fit with the 15th anniverserary
of the Bier Hall Putch (and that was how I learned that this event was
also on this date). Whether the date for the Bier Hall Putch was just
a good day that fitted into the plan, or it purposely was chosed to to
match the end of the Kaiser, I don't know. The date in 1989, on the
other hand was just pure occasion.

> first one was "A Fistful of Dollars", as both of us gave it. And the
> movie's IMDB page shows a poster where that *is* given as the title.
> But apparently that was not the title used onscreen.
 
This question appeared because I wanted a simple question, one that
three answers and I wanted a movie question (to broaden the quiz). It
took me some time to think about these films. Of which I have only seen
fragments of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". I actually own a video
cassette of the latter, that friends once gave me for birthday present.
But since I have never owned a video player, I have not had any use for
it.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 15 05:25PM -0500

Erland Sommarskog:
>>> 1924-11-08/09: Bier Hall Putch
>>> 1938-11-09/10: Kristallnacht, big pogrom against Jews.
>>> 1989-11-09: The Berlin Wall was opened.
 
Mark Brader:
>> And I thought Kristallnacht might have been on that date too, but
>> I figured that if it was, I would've seen it pointed out before.
>> Oh well.
 
Erland Sommarskog:
> at random, but it was purposely chosen to fit with the 15th anniverserary
> of the Bier Hall Putch (and that was how I learned that this event was
> also on this date)...
 
15th? Oh, right. the correct date of the putsch was 1923. (Doesn't
matter for contest purposes; nobody gave that answer.)
 
> The date in 1989, on the other hand was just pure occasion.
 
Yeah.
 
> cassette of the latter, that friends once gave me for birthday present.
> But since I have never owned a video player, I have not had any use for
> it.
 
The true non-movie-fan!
--
Mark Brader "'A matter of opinion'[?] I have to say you are
Toronto right. There['s] your opinion, which is wrong,
msb@vex.net and mine, which is right." -- Gene Ward Smith
 
My text in this article is in the public domain.
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Apr 16 04:38AM -0500

Erland Sommarskog:
 
> A Fistful Of Dollars
> A Few Dollars More
> The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Oh, by the way, I just finished reading a novel whose title is:
 
The Good, the Bad, and the Emus
 
--
Mark Brader | Our censorship system has one inexplicable anomaly.
Toronto | One of the rating codes is M for "mature", but there
msb@vex.net | isn't any corresponding "I" code... --Peter Moylan
Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Apr 15 09:28PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:ao-dnU8HVdGonk7HnZ2dnUU7-
> name the player.
 
> 1. Drafted in 2016 by the Toronto Maple Leafs, he is also the first
> player in modern NHL history to score 4 goals in his NHL debut.
 
Matthews
 
> a wicked shot. Over the course of his career, he has won
> a record 6 Rocket Richard Trophies as the league's leading
> goal-scorer.
 
Ovechkin
 
> won gold with Team Canada at the 2015 IIHF World Championship.
 
> 4. Drafted in 2014 by the Florida Panthers, this defenseman finished
> his rookie season with 12 goals and 27 assists.
 
Stamkos
 
 
> 5. Drafted in 2007 by the Chicago Blackhawks, this right-winger
> went on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy, the Art Ross Trophy,
> and the Hart Memorial Trophy.
 
Toewes
 
 
> 6. Drafted in 1984 by the Pittsburgh Penguins, this center went
> on to become one of the best players of all time -- in spite
> of a number of health problems, including Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 
Mario Lemieux
 
 
> 10. Drafted in 1973 by the New York Islanders, this defenseman was
> a key part of four Stanley Cup wins with the Islanders. He also
> was the first defenseman to score 1,000 points over his career.
 
Potvin
 
 
> 1. A young orphan boy is forced to live with his two cruel
> aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Later, he joins a ragtag group of
> human-sized, talking invertebrates.
 
James and the Giant Peach
 
 
> 2. The main character lives underground beside a tree with his wife
> and four children. He steals food from nearby farms in order to
> feed his family.
 
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
 
 
> 3. At the start of the novel, a malnourished 11-year-old boy lives
> in poverty in a tiny house with his parents and 4 grandparents.
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
 
 
> 10. A 5½-year-old girl lives a small Buckinghamshire village where
> she is often ill-treated or neglected by her parents. She is
> also a voracious reader.
 
Matilda
 
 
Pete Gayde
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